Sports · Blue Water Area
Unbeaten Marine City rolls past winless South Lake 70-22, then Algonac comes to town
MARINE CITY, Mich. — Marine City took a 6-0 record and a 5-0 mark in the Macomb Area Conference Silver to St. Clair Shores on Friday night, Oct. 9, to play South Lake, which had not won a game this fall.
The Mariners led the division, according to MaxPreps, and have scored at least 42 points in each of their last five games. That run includes a 64-36 win at St. Clair on Sept. 25 and a 49-28 home win over Hazel Park last Friday.
Marine City has outscored its opponents 288-143. Its closest game was the opener, a 20-13 win at Richmond on Aug. 28.
South Lake is 0-6 overall and 0-3 in the league. The Cavaliers have scored 68 points and allowed 297, and they have been shut out in their last two games, 77-0 at home against Glenn and 55-0 at Clintondale.
The bigger test likely comes a week later. Algonac, 5-1 and second in its league, plays at Marine City on Oct. 16 in a nonleague game between the two St. Clair River towns. The Muskrats’ only loss was 40-0 to Madison on Sept. 11, and they have won three straight since, most recently 40-29 over New Haven. Algonac hosted Eastpointe that Friday.
Marine City closes the regular season Oct. 23 at Marysville, which was 3-3 and played at Lake Shore that Friday. Also that night, St. Clair, 4-2, hosted Warren Woods-Tower, a team Marine City beat 69-24 in September.
Updated Oct. 12, 2026: Marine City won 70-22 at South Lake, MaxPreps results show, and is 7-0 going into the Oct. 16 game with Algonac. The Muskrats beat Eastpointe 72-24 to reach 6-1, and St. Clair shut out Warren Woods-Tower 61-0. Records above are as of the week of the games.
Updated Oct. 13, 2026: The headline and summary were changed to report the result of the game this story previewed.
Sources:
MaxPreps, Marine City football schedule and results, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/marine-city/marine-city-mariners/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, St. Clair Shores South Lake football schedule and results, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/st-clair-shores/south-lake-cavaliers/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Algonac football schedule and results, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/algonac/algonac-muskrats/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, St. Clair and Marysville football schedules, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/st-clair/st-clair-saints/football/schedule/
Photo: Michael Barera, “Highland Park vs. Royse City football 2017 10 (Royse City punting),” Nov. 3, 2017, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), cropped and color-corrected; derivative under the same ShareAlike license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Highland_Park_vs._Royse_City_football_2017_10_(Royse_City_punting).jpg
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